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Word: turvydom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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...absurd, in government, in the Law, in personalities. He was never tired of mocking the foibles of the England he loved. But in this book he is represented as a sentimentalist gone wrong. He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom. He was never fully aware of the peculiar quality of his own genius. Up to the end, he rebelled against the critics who, he felt, were forcing him to don the cap and bells, which became him so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: W. S. Gilbert* | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

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